What is the degree sum of all the interior angles of a nonagon?
1260
Compute the exact volume of a right cone with radius √7 inches and height 3 inches.
7π
Identify the mathematical property: If a = b, then a may be replaced by b in any expression.
Substitution
Which of the following women were beheaded?
Mary, Queen of Scots; Marie Antoinette
Arrange in chronological order: Marx, Friedman, Keynes, Smith.
4 (Smith), 1 (Marx), 3 (Keynes), 2 (Friedman)
What mountain range divides Europe from Asia in Russia?
Urals
Who said, “I stand before you today a thief and a robber…”?
Frederick Douglass
Which emperor ruled during the Roman defeat at Teutoberg Forest?
Augustus
Match economists: A-4 (Peron), B-2 (Allende), C-1 (Batista), D-3 (Noriega)
A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3
What title is given to assistants to party floor leaders in Congress?
Whip(s)
What chemical indicates industrial development?
Sulfuric acid (H₂SO₄)
What hormone is responsible for apical dominance, phototropism, and root growth?
Auxin (accept: indolacetic acid)
What model places the sun at the center of the solar system?
Heliocentric (accept: Copernican)
If momentum triples and mass is constant, by what factor does speed change?
3
Name the two purine bases in DNA.
Adenine, Guanine
Change in hydrogen ion concentration when pH drops by 3?
Increases by 1000 times
What blood type is impossible from an AB father and A mother?
Type O
How much work (in joules) is done by a 75% efficient drill in 32 sec at 550 W?
13,000 J
Who wrote Setting Free the Bears, A Prayer for Owen Meany, etc.?
(John) Irving
What genre is the Hugo Award given for?
Science fiction
Match terms: A-3, B-1, C-2, D-4
A = subject = does the action; B = direct object = receives action; C = indirect object = to/for whom; D = predicate nominative = renames subject
Name the author and title with characters: Mr. Haley, Eva, Legree, Eliza.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Define “blank verse.”
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Who wrote The Centaur?
(John) Updike
